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What on earth is a "GOP billionaire"? Or a luxury fishing vacation? How does it differ from a fishing trip? The boat is nicer? Is there a butler on board servin
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
What on earth is a "GOP billionaire"? Or a luxury fishing vacation? How does it differ from a fishing trip? The boat is nicer? Is there a butler on board serving filet Mignon and champagne?
The propaganda push is real trying to get Americans to think of the supreme court (of course, only the "conservative" justices) as corrupt. It's unthinkable that highly ambitious, successful people have highly ambitious and successful friends. It's impossible that people like to spend time with like minded people who agree with them on their core beliefs. No, it must be that they're getting paid to rule a certain way on the court.
I can't tell if this push is to get some justices to retire so that Biden gets to appoint more, or if it is a bigger play to remove faith in the supreme court and give more power to the executive. Either way this is a dangerous game being played.
The supreme court is less corrupt now than it ever has been IMO, since the first supreme court. And it it sacred, if the supreme court gets corrupted, the public loses faith in it or something like that, the republic will not survive.
- onetimeusename 3y agoThe WSJ says trips like this at the time were not considered gifts that had to be reported[1]. They seem to believe this is an attempt at forcing justices to recuse themselves more frequently to cripple any majority. ProPublica receives tax deductible funding to make reports like this. I think someone should investigate ProPublica to determine if it is breaking IRS charity guidelines. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-samuel-alito-propublica-fishing-trip-alaska-paul-singer-supreme-court-5f4bd925?mod=hp_opin_pos_1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-samuel-alito-propublica...